Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takao Hamano

Tomohiro Kanazawa

Hideyoshi Kosuge

Tyler Furman

Kiyoaki Maeda

Mitsuhiro Yazaki

Yoshihiro Masuda

Yoji Onishi

Masashi Sakata

Naohisa Masuda

Kenji Oda

Yasushi Ishibashi

Naoto Nakagawa

Hideyuki Takahashi

Yoichi Jinja

Geoffrey Ewing

Yui Nishizaki

Hiroyuki Kishi

Kazuhiro Morita

Takeshi Orio

Michael John Boyle

Trey Govier

Tokishin Nishinaka

Tatsunori Shimizu

Eiji Sakurada

A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed expandable in a front direction, and a screen shield arranged at a front end of the cargo bed. The cargo bed has at least a stationary bottom plate, right and left stationary side panels, a front panel, expandable side panels, and an expandable bottom plate and can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction to a rear portion riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the space. Each of the expandable side panels and the screen shield are supported by a vehicle body configuring portion so as to be integrally shifted between an expanded position and a non-expanded position.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A pick-up style utility vehicle having a front seat and a rear seat. The pick-up style utility vehicle includes a cargo bed movement mechanism for supporting a cargo bed movably within a predetermined movement range in a back and forth direction. Also, a seat movement mechanism is provided for supporting the rear seat movably between a use position set to be within the movement range and a shunting position set to be out of or beyond the movement range.

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Kobe, Japan

Takao Hamano